Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Brossura

Blackmon, Douglas A.

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ISBN 10: 0385722702 ISBN 13: 9780385722704

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009

Riassunto

Bringing to light a shameful chapter in American history, a shocking study reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off the outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to small-town businesses, provincial farmers, and even large corporations. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Shocking. . . . Eviscerates one of our schoolchildren's most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the Civil War.” —The New York Times

“An astonishing book. . . . It will challenge and change your understanding of what we were as Americans-and of what we are.” —Chicago Tribune

“The genius of Blackmon's book is that it illuminates both the real human tragedy and the profoundly corrupting nature of the Old South slavery as it transformed to establish a New South social order.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A formidably researched, powerfully written, wrenchingly detailed narrative.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

L'autore:

A native of Leland, Mississippi, Doug Blackmon is the Wall Street Journal's Atlanta Bureau Chief. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and their two children.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0385722702
• ISBN 13: 9780385722704
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496